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New Dawn sales and distribution to Affirm

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Perth-based publisher New Dawn Publishing has signed a sales and distribution agreement with Affirm Press. The publisher of speculative fiction was founded in September 2021 by Dylan Ingram with an...

First Nations storytellers in cultural exchange to Auckland Writers Festival

Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Five local First Nations storytellers will travel as part of a cultural exchange delegation to Auckland Writers Festival, with the support of the Australia Council. Auckland Writers Festival, which runs...

Winton, Berryman to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced

Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Author Tim Winton and HarperCollins children's publisher Lisa Berryman will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2023 ABIA awards ceremony on 25...

Hollier leaves MUP

Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Nathan Hollier has left the publisher. MUP chair Warren Bebbington told Books+Publishing that Hollier had left the publishing house in March, with chief operating officer...

Fogarty Literary Award shortlist announced

Monday, 8 May 2023
Fremantle Press has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted manuscripts are: Katherine Allum for ‘The Skeleton House’ Prema Arasu for ‘The Anatomy of...

Michael Gifkins Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Monday, 8 May 2023
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the shortlist for the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...

Dorothy Hewett 2023 shortlist announced

Monday, 8 May 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a...

Mary Gilmore Award 2023 shortlist announced

Monday, 8 May 2023
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced the shortlist for the annual Mary Gilmore Award for the best first book of poetry. The shortlisted collections are:...

A&U announces Fagan resignation

Friday, 5 May 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced publisher Kelly Fagan has resigned and will be leaving the company. In its statement announcing Fagan's resignation A&U said: 'Kelly joined A&U in October...

Arnott, Mahood win Age Book of the Year awards

Friday, 5 May 2023
The winners of the 2023 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. Robbie Arnott won the fiction award for Limberlost (Text) and Kim Mahood won the nonfiction prize for...

New Draper YA to Pan Mac, HarperTeen

Friday, 5 May 2023
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new YA novel by Lauren Draper via literary agent Annabel Barker, with world English rights (ex ANZ) going to HarperTeen US,...

Vallance wins 2023 Rosie Award

Thursday, 4 May 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) senior editor Cathy Vallance has won the Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie, for her editorial work on Zana Fraillon’s middle-grade verse novel...

BookPeople gift card program, new research

Thursday, 4 May 2023
BookPeople launched its new gift cards program last month, selling both digital and physical cards which can be redeemed at BookPeople member bookshops and Collins and Dymocks shops across Australia....

Romance Writers of Australia Conference 2023 program announced

Wednesday, 3 May 2023
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) annual conference will be held in Sydney from 11–13 August at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth. Under the theme of ‘All That Glitters’, the program...

Upswell acquires Boland essay collection

Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Brooke Boland’s first collection of essays. Gulp, Swallow reflects on the uncertainty of identity in a young woman’s life, ‘when who we...

Local authors on Daggers longlist

Wednesday, 3 May 2023
In the UK, the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has announced the longlists for its Dagger Awards. Authors from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand are among those longlisted for the annual...

Dale wins 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Queensland Poetry has announced that Madeleine Dale has won the 2023 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for her manuscript The Water-Bearers. Dale receives $2000 and a publishing contract with UQP. Judges...

Best Australian Yarn prize pool grows to $75,000

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
The 2023 Best Australian Yarn short story competition has a $75,000 prize pool, with $50,000 to be awarded to the competition winner. This year’s award includes two new categories, the...

Fagan files suit against A&U

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) publisher Kelly Fagan has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. On 31 March, Justice Robert Bromwich ordered A&U ‘not...

Wheeler Centre 2023 Hot Desk fellows

Monday, 1 May 2023
The Wheeler Centre has announced the successful applicants for its 2023 Hot Desk Fellowships. The 21 Hot Desk fellows are: moirra Caroline Arnoul Sienna Barton Sue deGennaro Elese Dowden Anneliz...

NT Writers Festival launches 2023 program

Monday, 1 May 2023
The NT Writers Festival has launched the program for this year's event, which takes place from 1–4 June 2023 in the Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Mparntwe/Alice Springs on Arrernte...

Scribe acquires Wallman, Sparrow collaboration

Monday, 1 May 2023
Scribe has acquired world rights to 12 Rules for Strife, a new graphic nonfiction work by Jeff Sparrow and Sam Wallman. Described by Scribe as a ‘radical gift book’ that will...

Reynolds reportedly settles with publisher, journalist over alleged defamation in ‘Ego’

Monday, 1 May 2023
Former federal minister Linda Reynolds has settled with journalist Aaron Patrick and publisher HarperCollins over allegedly defamatory statements made in the book Ego: Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party’s civil...

Ellis wins 2023 Calibre Essay Prize

Friday, 28 April 2023
Sydney writer Tracy Ellis has won the 2023 Australian Book Review (ABR) Calibre Essay Prize for her essay ‘Flow States’. Ellis, who won the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story...

Open Book 2023 interns announced

Friday, 28 April 2023
The successful applicants for the 2023 Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship have been announced. Selected from over 220 applications were Enchinea Close-Brown, Keerthana Ravindran and Isabelle Webb. Close-Brown, who will...

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